1979 (Shirley shows her sassy brassy jazzy powerful musical style on this song which was written for the Musical, 'She Loves Me'). I've checked Youtube high/low to find a song with similar arrangement and I can't find anything to compare. I don't know what musical style this is, but whatever it is, it's dynamic, and the closest singing style that I could come up with is music from the Chariman of the Board himself, Frank Sinatra and/or the jazzy style of Tony Bennett. This clip is from the Shirley Bassey TV Show in 1979. Shirley and Frank knew each other and were friends going way back to the late 50's Las Vegas days.
This song was recorded and released on Shirley's 1965 LP Titled, 'Shirley Bassey - Belts The Best'.
ABOUT the song, "He Loves Me":
The song, 'She Loves Me' is sung by a male in the actual musical but of course is changed to 'He Loves Me' when Shirley sings the song.
This song is from the musical titled,' She Loves Me.' She Loves Me is a musical and movie with a book by Joe Masteroff, lyrics by Sheldon Harnick, and music by Jerry Bock. She Loves Me was originally produced in 1963 with inspiration taken from the play and films that preceded it. Composer Jerry Brock and lyricist Sheldon Harnick are best known for Fiddler on The Roof which ran for eight years on Broadway, and is considered one of the longest running shows.
The musical is the fifth adaptation of the play Parfumerie by Hungarian playwright Miklos Laszlo, following the 1940 James Stewart-Margaret Sullavan film The Shop around the Corner and the 1949 Judy Garland-Van Johnson musical version In the Good Old Summertime. It would surface yet again in 1998 as the Tom Hanks-Meg Ryan feature You've Got Mail.
LYRICS:
He loves me
And to my amazement
I love it knowing that he loves me
He loves me,
Though he doesn't show it
How could he,
When he doesn't know it.
Yesterday he loathed me,
Now today he likes me,
And tomorrow, tomorrow...
My teeth ache from the urge to touch him
I'm speechless for I mustn't tell him
It's wrong now, but it won't be long now
Before my love discovers
That he and I are lovers
Imagine how surprised he's bound to be,
He loves meeeeeeeeeee!
HE LOVES ME.......!
Though he doesn't show it
How could he,
When he doesn't know it!
I'm tingling such delicious tingle,
I'm trembling, what the heck does that mean?
I'm freezing that's because it's cold out.
But still I'm incandescent
And like some adolescent
I'd like to scrawl
